Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once or twice people put their heads round the door and asked her if the Meditation proof was up yet , or whether she knew ‘ that she had four inches less than usual on page twelve . |
| 2 | " That evening King Darzin sent for the chief taster and asked him whether the lettuces were ready . |
| 3 | ‘ We went to the schools ’ liaison officer and asked him if the company could produce our prospectus in a professional manner . ’ |
| 4 | I spoke to Stansted , Essex , on the telephone and asked them if the would accept a cheque for the fuel , to which the reply was ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 5 | But , but , BUT … it is entirely up to you to find these faults , if they exist , and to report them before the particular guarantee periods expire — and how can you do this without a structural survey ? |
| 6 | Members of the group agree to document the project with photographs and notes and to continue it after the Design students graduate . |
| 7 | Many Creole and Cajun cooks set great store on the mixing of a good roux — blending flour and fat ( often lard ) and cooking them until the correct golden brown degree is achieved . |
| 8 | The Daily Mirror did not even pretend that its Scottish edition was the same paper and sold it as the Daily Record . |
| 9 | ‘ The nurses panicked and made me and the other mother sign forms saying that we definitely had our own babies . ’ |
| 10 | And I mashed the tea and made it and a fitting shop was there too . |
| 11 | The youngest son came to the totem , to Tallis , and straightened her after the blizzard had made her lean to the left . |
| 12 | measures than others in the area , right , and instal it before the weather gets too cold , and the price that 's on the contract will be the total amount you have to pay or something like that |
| 13 | She took a silver pin and inserted it where a dart was marked with a black V and a dot . |
| 14 | And because of its anxiety , the stallion will try to mount the mare too soon , or from too far away , and may try and attack her or the handler when things go wrong . |
| 15 | ask your Social Secretary office for form AG 5 ( and form AG 1 if you want to claim on low-income grounds and you do not hold a current AG 2 or AG 3 certificate ) , fill them both in and send them where the form tells you . |
| 16 | But we lived near a battery , we lived out at Whale Park And when they they deciding give the Elizabeth was just a baby then and I used to grab Elizabeth and go in the bed and the d down quilt and the pillows on top of us and lie tight and send you until the was in the sitting room and the search light follow the plane was at The plane was that near the house that the searchlight come right into the window , and the next I ken was the bullets ricocheting off the roof . |
| 17 | I have now , through your lordship 's favour , the satisfaction of seeing them cultivated in my neighbourhood , by the skilful hand of my friend , Mr. Miller , and shall take the first opportunity of describing and engraving them that the public may see how much they are indebted to your lordship . |
| 18 | The Robot Drill works by gripping the sides of its own hole , and anchoring itself until the bit has made space in which it can move on . |
| 19 | I introduced it to my classes in May last year and have developed and modified it as the weeks have passed . |
| 20 | He tried to move one of his hands to touch and soothe it but a great weariness engulfed him suddenly and his hand never reached its destination . |
| 21 | Seed merchants , garden centres and nurseries , and other plant suppliers , should take more responsibility and provide themselves and the public with more information about plant poisons . |
| 22 | One motorist who was stopped on the way to Bushmills said : ‘ The police were pulling in cars and coaches and taking teenagers out and searching them and the vehicles . |
| 23 | The dams also render the animals easy prey for hunters and trap them when the water is drained for irrigation . |
| 24 | In some sedimentary uranium ores , such as those in the southwestern US , oxidising solutions percolating through U-rich rocks dissolved U(VI) and transported it until the redox conditions changed and uranium precipitated as the U(IV) mineral uraninite . |
| 25 | He gathered his great strength , remembered the lessons he had learned abroad , and drove himself and the weary men on to do what must be done . |
| 26 | After a short distance he swapped places with the woman and drove her and the baby to Winchester . |
| 27 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
| 28 | Then she got more excited and told me that a Mrs Boatman had called from the National Insurance and was ever so attractive and charming . |
| 29 | However , a friendly priest emerged and told me that the whole church had been built , in an old-fashioned style , in 1935 . |
| 30 | and told me that the problem was electric |